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Microsoft Says Its New Surface Book 2 is Twice as Powerful as Latest MacBook Pro
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"Surface Book 2 pre-orders begin November 9.... and at its retail stores in the United States ....."
It's retail stores which are absolutely teeming with visitors and customers. LOL
Yawn
It's retail stores which are absolutely teeming with visitors and customers. LOL
Yawn
15” and quad core. Nice additions. Now if it only ran macOS I would buy it. Not interested in touch on a desktop OS but I need the pen/pencil input in a performance machine for work.
Not sure if it’s the same class cpu as 15” MBP though. And I would ideally want the RAM at 32 GB.
Not sure if it’s the same class cpu as 15” MBP though. And I would ideally want the RAM at 32 GB.
Is the ThinkPad your work laptop?
Mate, both macOS and windows have their issues..... I'm just not pretending one is garbage while the other is great. The divide is so close now.
Little competition? Everybody is running circles around Apple these days... And what’s Cook & Co doing? Nothing! Just counting their profits and pleasing investors instead of giving their customers something to be proud of again.
The Apple of today is past it’s prime. I really wonder how their employees see their own products. I remember a few keynotes back that they were reacting like they had taken sleeping pills.
I think two years and Cook will resign, leaving a company who’s lost it shine after years of working very hard to become a recognizable brand. Cook & Co managed in less than five years to turn a vibrant, nimble company into an overpriced elderly home.
The corporate windows machine I use to have used 20% of it's cpu on anti virus, corporate key stroke recording and other completely uses activity.
But it runs windows, which is a crappy operating system. Having to use a windows laptop ( Lenevo ) it does not compare to my MacBook.
You are confusing the Surface Book with the Surface Pro.
but I need the pen/pencil input in a performance machine for work
But if you can't get this in a mac, what do you do all day?
Hmm.. well it does have better specs and components... it also comes with a full touch screen and detachable screen. Better battery life and support for a pen with 4096 levels of pressure. So to answer your question, I'd say "no".
Well, I mean technically, Microsofts laptop is both a laptop AND a tablet, and its GPU is over 2x as powerful as whats in the Macbook Pro.
You can't just look at cost, you have to look at what you're getting for the price. You are still getting more bang for the buck with this laptop.
Oh, and I guess Microsofts Surface products aren't dead after all...
Haven't tried it, but my air cooled Surface Pro doesn't get as warm as my Macbook Air.
None of the things you listed have been things I've dealt or worried about on a Windows machine in years, and never on Windows 10.
As for continuity, today Microsoft is pushing out continuity to Android phones as part of the Fall Creators Update and Microsoft Launcher.
Only when you can detach the screen from a MBP and use it like a tablet
Exactly!
Well what choice do you have? Apple has decided that for you. As for me, I can carry one device instead of two and when you are traveling the world that is a big deal. I've not been anywhere with the Surface Pro that a colleague didn't a) drool, and b) contact me later to find out how they can get a setup like I'm using.
The key there is "corporate", meaning they've mucked it up with their crap on it. Run a native Windows 10 machine and compare that to your Mac, not a crippled corporate machine.
Windows has now reached the point where leaving it for MacOS and the crappy butterfly keyboard doesn't make sense, at least not as much as it did a few years ago. If you feel married to MacOS and the ecosystem, that's one thing, but if you were never part of it in the first place...you probably would be better served to stick with Windows for now and wait for Apple's next big innovation on the Mac front, if one ever comes under Tim Cook. At the very least wait for some resolution on the butterfly keyboard thing.Sounds awesome. But it runs Windows...
[Actually, Windows isn't half too bad these days
I had to pick a PC laptop for Windows office and I agree 100% with your assessments. Shut off everything in the privacy options and disabled Cortana. It keeps trying so hard to get my info. I cannot wait to give this POS away. Plus, freeze ups now because of the weak internal gpu: All while editing photos in a Word doc with one web browser open.
That said, I am seeing a lot of beach balls on my iMac running sierra (with 8/10s of storage still available and 24gb of ram) Not pushing that hard either, but after almost 3 weeks with this Windows laptop, I would still rather put up with Apple's bs. I just hope that MS has seriously lit a fire under Apple's butt concerning lap and desktop hardware.
And in terms of Surface Book 2 may it have far fewer issues for buyers.
It's not that Windows is a POS, it's the fact that those millions of employees never had the choice and when they do, many choose MacOS even if it requires a small learning curve to perform similar tasks. PCs are made for businesses (not end users) but Macs are made for consumers (end users).
I agree that Microsoft is eating Apple's breakfast with this product in terms of design. I still agree with Apple about having specialized operating systems, and that way you don't need to compromise one or the other. I see a hybrid Mac/iPad — when attached to a keyboard, it's a Mac, and when detached, it's an iPad. But you can still bring up the full iPad interface on the Mac, if you want to. It's still two operating systems running in tandem, sharing hardware.
If anyone can do this, Apple can, and it would be a step beyond the Windows/Chrome OS attempts at being both.
I use a non-mobile solution—MBP attached to a Cintiq. It’s great when I’m at my desk, but when I need to be mobile there are no good Mac solutions.
Yet I've been running windows 10 since day one and have yet to experience a BSOD.
-no BSOD
- No issues with DLLs
- no experience with fingerprint scanner on win10
- No issues with power management
- Ads/Spyware...guess what they exist on macs now too...just reformatted and installed high sierra on a neighbors macbook pro
- plenty of backup options, windows backup is fine
-continuity with phones...you got me there
-no issues with anti virus
- mac update process isn't any better or worse
- Edge sucks....we all know this.
You must be doing something wrong to experience all those issues.
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Be careful about spreading misinformation. The new Edge browser is not "Internet Explorer with a new name". It is a fully-reborn browser.
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Stale in terms of appearance? Is that more important to you over things like reliability, efficiency and productivity? macOS wins hands-down in those areas.
I've had my HP Spectre x360 15" for 7 months now running Windows 10 with no BSOD or any other major crash. No viruses or malware detected in that period of time. I use Chrome or Firefox most of the time.
Lenovos are the Toyota's of commerce. We have used these exclusively for the past 15 years in our environment.
Exception being the 'new platform' models - helix, tablets etc. All those Lenovo devices have been problematic and I recall sending back 20+ helixes at one shot several years back. Their laptops have been nothing short of reliable.